Problem with cyrus and deleting a message with a virus.

[Brian]

Bottom line:  The virus scanning should be done by your MTA.  If you muck
around in user mailboxes, deleting messages willy nilly without letting
Cyrus know, you *will* corrupt users' mailstores, unless you tediously
plan to run reconstruct on a mailbox everytime a virus is found.  Unless
your name is Rube Goldberg, this seems like a bad idea to me.

If you must alter messages after they've been delivered, run Courier or
some other MH-based mailserver.  Cyrus isn't for you.  It's really that
simple.

<commentary>
IMHO, all *YOU* can be expected to be responsible for as a socially
responsible sys admin is the mail sent through your mailserver.  If virus
scanning is done on all outbound/inbound SMTP connections, then you can
rest well knowing you're doing your part.  If some clueless user uploads a
virus as an IMAP piece of mail and they don't run anti-viral software,
well it'll only happen to them once if they're smart ;-)
</commentary>

The benefits of scanning inbound & outbound SMTP traffic only becomes
apparent if you really think about it.

--
Brian